Rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler

ABSTRACT

A rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler is configured to allow rebars to be fixed without a movement of the rebars after performing a one-touch insertion. A fixation of the rebars is completed by performing an additional tightening operation to housing units into which the rebars are inserted. The coupler increases both the fixation stability of the rebar and the safety of a structure employing the rebar.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO PRIOR APPLICATIONS

This application is a National Stage Patent Application of PCTInternational Patent Application No. PCT/KR2019/006917 (filed on Jun.10, 2019) under 35 U.S.C. § 371, which claims priority to Korean PatentApplication No. 10-2019-0063060 (filed on May 29, 2019), which are allhereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.

BACKGROUND

The present disclosure relates to a rebar movement-prevention-typeone-touch coupler. More particularly, the present disclosure relates toa rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler that is configured toallow rebars to be fixed without a movement of the rebars afterperforming a one-touch insertion, due to a structure configured suchthat a fixation of the rebars is completed by performing an additionaltightening operation to housing units into which the rebars areinserted, so that the coupler increases both the fixation stability ofthe rebar and the safety of a structure employing the rebar.

Generally, a rebar is widely used to reinforce strength of a concretestructure with being embedded in concrete when a reinforced concretestructure is applied in the fields of construction or civil engineering.Particularly, a large number of the rebars are used for a largestructure, a special structure, and a civil engineering structure suchas a bridge.

However, since the rebar is standardized and manufactured in a uniformlength, the rebar manufactured in a limited length is required to beconnected to another rebar when the rebar is used for a large structure,a special structure, and a civil engineering structure such as a bridge.

Conventionally, a lap joint, a welding joint, a thread process joint, amechanical joint, a one-touch joint, and so on have been used until nowas a method of connecting a rebar.

As the lap joint is a method in which the rebars are overlapped eachother to a predetermined length and joined by bundling them with steelwires or wires, the lap joint has a disadvantage in that since therebars need to be overlapped and joined each other every time when thelap joint is performed, loss amount of the rebar is high, a strength ofthe overlapping portion is weak and easily separated, and a constructionperiod is extended due to poor constructability. Further, the weldingjoint is inconvenient to be performed in construction, and the strengthof the rebar around the welded portion is remarkably weakened since heatis applied to the welded portion.

The mechanical joint method has been developed to compensate for thedisadvantages that are described above. However, as an example of theconventional mechanical joint method, referring to a connectingapparatus for a steel reinforcement disclosed in Korean PatentApplication Publication No. 10-2009-0009578, a lot of manual operationsof a technician such as contacting a first coupler and a second couplerto each other, tightening a tightening nut, inserting a fastening pin,and so on are required to be performed when rebars are connected to eachother at a work site. Therefore, there have been problems thatconstruction takes much time and has high cost.

In addition, a reinforcing bar coupler has been disclosed in KoreanPatent Application Publication No. 10-2013-0143331. The disclosedreinforcing bar coupler includes: a sleeve having an inner portionthereof provided with a hollow portion communicating with an end portionin a longitudinal direction such that a reinforcing bar is inserted intothe hollow portion through the end portion, and the sleeve beingconfigured such that an outer circumferential surface thereof isprovided with at least one opening portion that exposes the hollowportion; and a binding member having an inner side surface thereofprovided with a plurality of joint grooves so that a joint of thereinforcing bar is fitted to the plurality of joint grooves, the bindingmember being interposed between an inner circumferential surface of thesleeve and an outer circumferential surface of the rebar that isinserted into the hollow portion of the sleeve.

However, in a conventional one-touch joint reinforcing bar coupler,since a holding force of a reinforcing bar is realized by a bindingmember, the holding force is relatively weak. Therefore, there has beena problem that a situation in which an initial slight movement occurs orthe amount of a slipping of the reinforcing bar increases.

In order to solve this problem, it has been disclosed in Korean PatentNo. 10-1951882 that a supporting member is mounted at a center portionof a one-touch reinforcing bar coupler such that a connection portion ofa reinforcing bar is capable of being prevented from being located onone side. However, there has been a problem that it is difficult for aworker to estimate a length inserted into opposite sides of a couplerbody when different reinforcing bars are connected to each other.

SUMMARY

Accordingly, the present disclosure has been made keeping in mind theabove problems occurring in the related art, and the present disclosureis intended to propose a rebar movement-prevention-type one-touchcoupler in a new type in which a structure is provided, the structurebeing configured such that rebars are inserted therein while a pair ofhousing units connected to a connection socket is in a state of beingspaced apart from each other, and such that a fixation of the rebars iscompleted by performing an additional tightening operation to each ofthe housing units, thereby realizing the fixation of the rebars withoutallowing a movement of the rebars.

In addition, the present disclosure is intended to propose a rebarmovement-prevention-type one-touch coupler in a new type in which apiece body ring having a rectangular vertical cross-section is providedand to which a plurality of piece bodies are fitted, thereby beingcapable of allowing the plurality of piece bodies to be stably andeasily inserted inside the housing units while the plurality of piecebodies is positioned in place on a circular line and is prevented frombeing separated toward the outside, and thereby being capable ofallowing the plurality of piece bodies to be disposed inside the housingunits while maintaining the same height so that the rebars are securelyfixed without an misoperation.

In addition, the present disclosure is intended to allow estimating ofthe coupling lengths between the pair of housing units and oppositesides of the connection socket when a worker connects the rebars to eachother, by forming a non-thread machined surface on the center of theconnection socket that is coupled to each of the housing units.

In addition, the present disclosure is intended to maximize theoperational effect of a secure fixation structure of the rebars withouta movement of the rebars, which is realized by double-tightening each ofthe housing units performed by the additional tightening operation ofthe worker and a finial tightening operation by using a separatetightening device after an initial setting mode for connecting thehousing units to each other in a state of being spaced apart, therebyallowing the final tightening operation to be performed by using theseparate tightening device such as a wrench since one side of the outercircumferential surface of each of the housing units is provided with acoupling guide surface having a polygonal shape.

In order to achieve the above objectives, according to one aspect of thepresent disclosure, there is provided a rebar movement-prevention-typeone-touch coupler including: a pair of housing units each of which isformed in a tubular shape in which a rebar inlet hole provided at oneside thereof and a socket mounting hole provided at the other sidethereof are connected with each other via an inner passage, the pair ofhousing units being configured to have both a tapered innercircumferential surface of which an inner diameter becomes smaller in aside direction and a non-tapered inner circumferential surface, thenon-tapered inner circumferential surface being configured such that adiameter thereof has the same diameter as a diameter of the socketmounting hole and being connected to the socket mounting hole; a pair ofpiece body units each of which is provided with a plurality of piecebodies that is inserted into and disposed in the inner passage while theplurality of piece bodies is in a state of being spaced apart from eachother in a circular line, with a plurality of locking protrusions formedon an inner side surface of each of the plurality of piece bodies in alongitudinal direction thereof; a pair of springs each of which isconfigured to respectively provide an elastic force in a longitudinaldirection thereof to each of the piece body units by being inserted intothe inner passage of each of the housing units and by being fitted to asecond end of each of the piece body units; and a connection socketformed in a cylindrical shape and disposed between the pair of housingunits, the connection socket being configured to connect the pair ofhousing units to each other by being coupled to the opposed non-taperedinner circumferential surfaces of the housing units, and the connectionsocket being in close contact with and fixed to the pair of springs,wherein the rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler isconfigured to be operated in an initial setting mode in which each ofthe housing units is in a state of being spaced apart from each other byan initial coupling length in which the pair of housing units arepartially coupled to the connection socket, and is configured to beoperated in a rebar fixing mode in which each of the housing units iscoupled to the connection socket up to an additional coupling lengthwhile a rebar is in a state of being inserted into the inner passagethrough the rebar inlet hole, so that the rebar is fixed without amovement of the rebar while each of the springs and each of the piecebodies are guided to be moved to the side direction.

According to the rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler of thepresent disclosure, the rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch couplermay further include a piece body ring configured to guide the pluralityof piece bodies constituting each of the piece body units to bepositioned in place on the circular line, and the inner side surface ofeach of the piece bodies may be provided with a piece body ringinsertion groove having a predetermined height in a circumferentialdirection, so that the plurality of piece bodies may be inserted intoand disposed in the inner passage of each of the housing units whilemaintaining the same height by the piece body ring that is fitted to thepiece body ring insertion groove.

According to the rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler of thepresent disclosure, the piece body ring may be formed of an elasticmaterial and may be formed in a major arc shape that is provided with anincision portion in which a predetermined section is cut, and theplurality of piece bodies inserted into the inner passage of each of thehousing units may be in close contact with the tapered innercircumferential surface.

According to the rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler of thepresent disclosure, each of the housing units may further include: afemale thread machined surface that is formed at the non-tapered innercircumferential surface, and the connection socket may further include:male thread machined surfaces formed at opposite ends of an outercircumferential surface of the connection socket, respectively, so thateach of the male thread machined surfaces is coupled to each of thefemale thread machined surfaces; and a non-thread machined surfacerecessively formed between the male thread machined surfaces andpositioned at a center of an outer circumferential surface of each ofthe housing units.

According to the rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler of thepresent disclosure, each of the housing units may further include: acoupling guide surface in which one side of an outer circumferentialsurface thereof is formed in a polygonal shape.

According to the rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler of thepresent disclosure, the rebars are inserted into the pair of housingunits while the pair of housing units coupled to the connection socketis in a state of being spaced apart, and the fixation of the rebars iscompleted by performing the additional tightening operation to the pairof housing units, so that the secure fixation of the rebars withoutmovement of the rebars may be realized.

In addition, according to the rebar movement-prevention-type one-touchcoupler of the present disclosure, the plurality of piece bodies ispositioned in place on the circular line since the plurality of piecebodies is fitted to the piece body ring having the rectangular verticalcross-sectional shape, and the plurality of piece bodies is stably andeasily inserted into each of the housing units without being separatedto the outside and is disposed inside each of the housing units whilemaintaining the same height continuously, so that each of the piecebodies is capable of securely fixing the rebars without misoperation.

In addition, according to the rebar movement-prevention-type one-touchcoupler of the present disclosure, since the non-thread machined surfaceis formed at the center of the connection socket that is coupled to eachof the housing units, the worker is capable of estimating a couplinglength between each of the housing units and opposite ends of theconnection socket when the worker is connecting the rebars, and aworking situation is capable of being easily checked at a glance.

In addition, according to the rebar movement-prevention-type one-touchcoupler of the present disclosure, since the coupling guide surfacehaving a polygonal shape that is capable of being inserted into thetightening device (wrench) is formed at the one side of the outercircumferential surface of each of the housing units in a longitudinaldirection, each of the housing units is capable of beingdouble-tightened by the additional tightening operation of the workerand the finial tightening operation by using a separate tighteningdevice after performing the initial setting mode for connecting each ofthe housing units to each other with being spaced apart, so that theoperational effect of the secure fixation structure of the rebarswithout movements of the rebars may be maximized.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a view illustrating an initial setting mode of a rebarmovement-prevention-type one-touch coupler according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a view illustrating a rebar fixing mode of the rebarmovement-prevention-type one-touch coupler according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure.

FIG. 3 shows external views illustrating a housing unit of the rebarmovement-prevention-type one-touch coupler according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure.

FIG. 4 is an internal cross-sectional view illustrating the housing unitof the rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler according to anembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view illustrating a piece body of the rebarmovement-prevention-type one-touch coupler according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure.

FIG. 6 is a side view illustrating the piece body of the rebarmovement-prevention-type one-touch coupler according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure.

FIG. 7 is a view illustrating a usage state of a piece body unit of therebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler according to anembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 8 is an external view illustrating a connection socket of the rebarmovement-prevention-type one-touch coupler according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure.

FIG. 9 is an internal cross-sectional view illustrating the connectionsocket of the rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 10 shows views illustrating a piece body ring of the rebarmovement-prevention-type one-touch coupler according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present disclosure will be describedin detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 10 in the accompanying drawings.Meanwhile, in the drawings and the detailed description, illustrationand explanation of the construction and operation of a general one-touchcoupler which a person skilled in the art can easily understand will besimplified or omitted. Particularly, in the illustration of the drawingsand the detailed description, illustration and description on thedetailed technical construction and operation of elements, which havenot direct relevance with the technical features of the presentdisclosure, will be omitted, and only the technical constructionsrelated with the present disclosure will be briefly illustrated orexplained.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, a rebar movement-prevention-type one-touchcoupler 1 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is adevice configured to connect rebars 10 to each other, and includes ahousing unit 100, a piece body unit 200, a spring 300, a connectionsocket 400, and a piece body ring 500.

A pair of housing units 100 is arranged symmetrically on a straight lineso that the rebars 10 can be connected to each other. One side of thehousing unit 100 is provided with a rebar inlet hole 111, and the otherside of the housing unit 100 is provided with a socket mounting hole112. Therefore, it is preferable that the rebar inlet hole 111 of thehousing unit 100 is configured to be larger than an outer diameter ofthe rebar 10 so that the rebar 10 is capable of being inserted into therebar inlet hole 111 from an outside. Such a housing unit 100 is formedin a tubular shape, so that the rebar inlet hole 111 and the socketmounting hole 112 are connected with each other via an inner passage 110of the housing unit 100.

In particular, the housing unit 100 has a tapered inner circumferentialsurface 120 of which an inner diameter becomes smaller toward the rebarinlet hole 111 that is positioned at the one side of the housing unit100. In addition, a non-tapered inner circumferential surface 130 ofwhich a diameter is the same as a diameter of the socket mounting hole112 is provided at the other side of the housing unit 100. Such anon-tapered inner circumferential surface 130 may be provided with afemale thread machined surface 131 so that the non-tapered innercircumferential surface 130 is coupled to the connection socket 400, andit is preferable that a male thread machined surface 431 is formed at anouter circumferential surface of the connection socket 400. In addition,at the non-tapered inner circumferential surface 130 of the housing unit100, the fastening distance can be limited by forming the female threadmachined surface 131 only at a section to which the connection socket400 is coupled.

In addition, a coupling guide surface 140 formed in a polygonal shapemay be formed at one side of an outer circumferential surface of thehousing unit 100. When the pair of housing units 100 is coupled to theconnection socket 400, the pair of housing units 100 may be securelyfastened to the connection socket 400 by using a device such as a wrenchor a monkey spanner since the coupling guide surface 140 is respectivelyformed at an end of the pair of housing units 100. Therefore, it ispreferable that the one side of the outer circumferential surface of thehousing unit 100 is formed in a hexagonal shape or an octagonal shape ina longitudinal direction, so that a slipping situation that may occurduring a fastening operation may be prevented by a structure that hasthe coupling guide surface 140. In addition, a safety guide surfaceformed in a planar shape or a curved shape may be provided at an edge ofthe coupling guide surface 140. Such a safety guide surface prevents aworker from being injured from the sharp edge of the coupling guidesurface 140 when the worker performs to couple the housing unit 100 tothe connection socket 400.

Referring to FIGS. 5 to 7, the piece body unit 200 is formed of aplurality of piece bodies 210, and is respectively inserted into thepair of housing units 100. With the piece body unit 200 being in a statein which the plurality of piece bodies 210 is arranged to be spacedapart in a circular line, the piece body unit 200 is inserted into anddisposed on the inner passage 110 through the socket mounting hole 112of the housing unit 100. In addition, at an inner side surface of thepiece body unit 200, a plurality of locking protrusions 211 is providedin a longitudinal direction, and serves to fix the rebar 10 while beingin close contact with an outer circumferential surface of the rebar 10.The locking protrusion 211 is configured such that an inclinedprotrusion is formed in a direction toward the socket mounting hole 112at the other side, the direction being opposite to a direction in whichthe rebar 10 is introduced. Accordingly, when the locking protrusion 211is in close contact with the rebar 10, the locking protrusion 211 mayprevent the slipping situation and may increase a friction force.

In order to securely hold the rebar 10 and to keep a balance, it ispreferable that one piece body unit 200 is formed of four piece bodies210.

Here, at the inner side surface of the piece body 210, a piece body ringinsertion groove 212 having a predetermined width (d) in a longitudinaldirection may be formed in a circumferential direction. In order foreach of the piece bodies 210 to maintain a state in which the piece bodyring 500 is fitted and fixed to the each of the piece bodies 210, it ispreferable that the predetermined width (d) of the piece body ringinsertion groove 212 is configured to be the same as a height (H) of thepiece body ring 500.

In addition, each of the piece bodies 210 may be formed of an expandedsurface body 210 a, a spring seating surface body 210 b, and a springguide surface body 210 c.

First, the expanded surface body 210 a is configured such that an outerdiameter thereof becomes smaller toward the one side thereof from theother side thereof. Such an expanded surface body 210 a is disposed suchthat the expanded surface body 210 a is to be in contact with thetapered inner circumferential surface 120 of the housing unit 100. Inaddition, when the housing unit 100 and the connection socket 400 arecoupled to each other, the expanded surface body 210 a smoothly movestoward the rebar inlet hole 111 along the tapered inner circumferentialsurface 120, thereby allowing the locking protrusion 211 to be securelyengaged with and fixed to the outer circumferential surface of the rebar10.

The spring seating surface body 210 b is configured to be stepped towardan inner circumferential surface thereof from a second end of theexpanded surface body 210 a. By such a spring seating surface body 210b, a space into which the spring 300 is capable of being inserted isformed, and the spring 300 inserted into the spring seating surface body210 b through the socket mounting hole 112 pressurizes the springseating surface body 210 b by a coupling of the housing unit 100 and theconnection socket 400. By a pressure of the spring 300 acting on thespring seating surface body 210 b, the expanded surface body 210 a iscan be moved toward the rebar inlet hole 111 along the tapered innercircumferential surface 120.

The spring guide surface body 210 c is formed at a second end of thespring seating surface body 210 b and extends such that an outerdiameter thereof is constant. In order to guide the spring 300 to beinserted into the spring seating surface body 210 b, it is preferablethat the spring guide surface body 210 c is configured to be smallerthan an inner diameter of the spring 300.

Referring to FIGS. 1 to 4, the spring 300 is respectively disposed atthe pair of housing units 100, and is stably inserted into an inner wallsurface of the inner passage 110 through the socket mounting hole 112and is fitted to a second end of the piece body unit 200, therebyserving as providing an elastic force in a longitudinal direction to thepiece body unit 200. Such a spring 300 is disposed at the non-taperedinner circumferential surface 130 side of the housing unit 100, and itis preferable that the outer diameter of the spring 300 is configured tobe equal to or lower than a diameter of the non-tapered innercircumferential surface 130. In addition, it is preferable that theouter diameter of the spring 300 is configured to be larger than adiameter of the tapered inner circumferential surface 120 andpressurizes the second end of the piece body unit 200 from a domain ofthe non-tapered inner circumferential surface 130.

Referring to FIGS. 8 and 9, the connection socket 400 is disposedbetween the pair of housing units 100, and is formed in a cylindricalshape, thereby being coupled to the pair of housing units 100. Inaddition, the connection socket 400 is coupled to the non-tapered innercircumferential surface 130 of each of the housing units 100, andconnects the pair of housing units 100 to each other. In order for theconnection socket 400 to be coupled to the female thread machinedsurface 131 that is respectively formed at the non-tapered innercircumferential surface 130 of each of the housing units 100, the malethread machined surface 431 is respectively formed at opposite ends ofthe outer circumferential surface of the connection socket 400. Inaddition, a non-thread machined surface 432 is recessively formed at aspace between the male thread machined surfaces 431 of the connectionsocket 400, and is positioned at a center of the outer circumferentialsurface of the housing unit 100. Such a non-thread machined surface 432allows a worker to identify a coupling length between the pair ofhousing units 100 and the connection socket 400 when the pair of housingunits 100 is coupled to the connection socket 400, so that the couplinglength with respect to the rebar 10 is capable of being adjusted and aworking progress may be easily checked.

In addition, a rebar seating surface 433 is formed in the connectionsocket 400 such that an end of the rebar 10 is capable of being seatedon the rebar seating surface 433 while the rebar 10 is inserted into aninner portion of the connection socket 400. It is preferable that such arebar seating surface 433 is centrally disposed so that the rebars 10are capable of being inserted in the same length to each other. Inaddition, it is preferable that the inner diameter of the connectionsocket 400 is configured to be smaller than the inner diameter of thespring 300 and the outer diameter of the connection socket 400 isconfigured to be larger than the outer diameter of the spring 300 sothat the each of the opposite sides of the connection socket 400 stablypressurizes the second end of the spring 300.

Referring to FIGS. 1 to 3, and FIG. 10, the piece body ring 500 isinserted into the piece body ring insertion groove 212, and guides theplurality of piece bodies 210 to be positioned in place on the circularline. In addition, the piece body ring 500 allows the piece bodies 210inserted into the inner passage 110 of the housing unit 100 to be inclose contact with the tapered inner circumferential surface 120. Tothis end, an initial outer diameter of the piece body ring 500 beforeperforming a tightening operation is configured to be in a size range inwhich the plurality of piece bodies 210 is in close contact with thetapered inner circumferential surface 120.

In addition, the plurality of piece bodies 210 maintains the same heightby the piece body ring 500 that is fitted to the piece body ringinsertion groove 212, and is stably inserted into and disposed on theinner wall surface of the inner passage 110 of the housing unit 100. Inaddition, the piece body ring 500 prevents the plurality of piece bodies210 from being deviated by a movement of the housing unit 100 while thehousing unit 100 is rotated so as to perform a tightening operation tothe inserted rebar 10, and guides the piece body unit 200 positionedaround the rebar 10 to uniformly and stably tighten the rebar 10.

And the piece body ring 500 is formed of an elastic material and formedin a major arc shape that is provided with an incision portion 510 inwhich a predetermined section is cut, so that the diameter of the piecebody ring 500 is capable of being adjusted by the incision portion 510as the piece body ring 500 moves depending on the rotation movement ofthe housing unit 100. Such a piece body ring 500 may be formed of ametal material having elasticity or a resin material having elasticity.In addition, the piece body ring 500 is formed in a ring shape that hasa rectangular vertical cross-sectional shape, and the height (H) of thepiece body ring 500 is configured to have the same height of thepredetermined width (d) of the piece ring insertion groove 212, therebyallowing the piece body ring 500 to be fitted to the plurality of piecebodies 210. It is preferable that the height (H) of the piece body ring500 and the predetermined width (d) of the piece ring insertion groove212 are 3 mm to 15 mm.

Meanwhile, the diameter of the piece body ring 500 is configured to beadjusted by the incision portion 510. In addition, the piece body ring500 serves as a linkage that allows each of the piece bodies 210positioned in place forming the piece body unit 200 to be simultaneouslymoved toward the rebar inlet hole 111.

Referring to FIG. 1, the pair of housing units 100 is operated in aninitial setting mode in which the pair of housing units 100 is in astate of being spaced apart from each other by an initial couplinglength (L) in which the connection socket 400 is partially coupled tothe pair of housing units 100.

In addition, referring to FIG. 2, in a state in which the rebar 10 isinserted into the inner passage 110 through the rebar inlet hole 111,the pair of housing units 100 is further coupled by an additionalcoupling length (L′), so that the spring 300 and the piece bodies 210are guided to be moved to the one side direction, thereby the pair ofhousing units 100 being operated in a rebar fixing mode in which therebar 10 is fixed without a movement of the rebar 10. The portion up tothe non-thread machined surface 432 of the connection socket 400 may beincluded in the additional coupling length (L′), and an additionalcoupling operation may be performed by the worker, depending on aworking situation. Here, since the one side of the outer circumferentialsurface of the housing unit 100 is provided with the coupling guidesurface 140 having the polygonal shape in the longitudinal direction, afinal tightening operation of the housing unit 100 is capable of beingperformed by using a separate tightening device such as a wrench.Therefore, after the initial setting mode for separately connecting thepair of housing units 100, the rebar fixing mode in which the pair ofhousing units 100 is double-tightened by the additional tighteningoperation performed from the worker and the finial tightening operationperformed by using the separate tightening device is capable of beingperformed. Through this, the operational effect of a secure fixationstructure without a movement of a rebar may be maximized. The piece bodyring 500 having the rectangular vertical cross-sectional shape to whichthe plurality of piece bodies 210 is fitted is provided in the presentdisclosure. Therefore, as the plurality of the piece bodies 210 ispositioned in place on the circular line, the plurality of piece bodies210 are capable of being stably and easily inserted inside the housingunit 100 without being separated to the outside, and is disposed insidethe housing unit 100 while maintaining the same height, thereby securelyfixing the rebar without a misoperation.

Although the rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler accordingto an embodiment of the present disclosure has been described withreference to the accompanying drawings as described above, this ismerely an example, and those skilled in the art will appreciate thatvarious changes and modifications are possible without departing fromthe technical spirit of the present disclosure.

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 6. A rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch couplercomprising: a pair of housing units each of which is formed in a tubularshape in which a rebar inlet hole provided at one side thereof and asocket mounting hole provided at the other side thereof are connectedwith each other via an inner passage, the pair of housing units beingconfigured to have a tapered inner circumferential surface of which aninner diameter becomes smaller to the one side direction; a pair ofpiece body units each of which is provided with a plurality of piecebodies each having an expanded surface body in which an outercircumferential surface thereof becomes smaller to the one sidedirection and which is disposed to be in contact with the tapered innercircumferential surface, the plurality of piece bodies being insertedinto and disposed in the inner passage of each of the housing unitswhile the plurality of piece bodies is in a state of being spaced apartfrom each other in a circular line, and an inner side surface of each ofthe plurality of piece bodies being provided with a plurality of lockingprotrusions in a longitudinal direction thereof; and a pair of springseach of which is configured to respectively provide an elastic force ina longitudinal direction thereof to each of the piece body units bybeing inserted into the inner passage of each of the housing units andby being fitted to an end of each of the piece body units, wherein theinner side surface of each of the piece bodies is provided with a piecebody ring insertion groove in a circumferential direction, and the rebarmovement-prevention-type one-touch coupler further comprises: a piecebody ring formed of an elastic material and having a major arc shapeprovided with an incision portion in which a predetermined section iscut and having a rectangular vertical cross-sectional shape that has aheight that is the same as a width in a longitudinal direction of thepiece body ring insertion groove, the piece body ring being configuredto guide the expanded surface body of each of the piece bodies to be inclose contact with the tapered inner circumferential surface andconfigured to guide the plurality of piece bodies to be positioned inplace on the circular line while the plurality of piece bodies ismaintaining a position in a longitudinal direction thereof to be thesame with each other, and the piece body ring being fitted and fixed tothe piece body ring insertion groove such that each of the piece bodiesis simultaneously moved in a direction toward the rebar inlet hole, andboth the width in the longitudinal direction and the height are set tobe 3 mm to 15 mm.
 7. The rebar movement-prevention-type one-touchcoupler of claim 6, wherein each of the housing units is provided with anon-tapered inner circumferential surface having the same diameter as adiameter of the socket mounting hole, and each of the non-tapered innercircumferential surfaces is connected to each of the socket mountingholes and is provided with a female thread machined surface, wherein therebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler further comprises: aconnection socket formed in a cylindrical shape and disposed between thepair of housing units, the connection socket being configured to connectthe pair of housing units to each other at opposite ends thereofprovided with male thread machined surfaces being respectively coupledto the female thread machined surfaces, the connection socket beingprovided with a non-thread machined surface that is recessively formedbetween the male thread machined surfaces and is provided on a centerbetween the outer circumferential surfaces of the opposed housing units,the connection socket being configured such that an inner center portionthereof has a rebar seating surface on which an end portion of a rebaris seated while the rebar is inserted into the connection socket, andthe connection socket being configured such that opposite side surfacesthereof have inner diameters smaller than an inner diameter of thespring and outer diameters of the opposite side surfaces of theconnection socket are larger than an outer diameter of the spring,thereby pressurizing an end of the spring, and the rebarmovement-prevention-type one-touch coupler is configured to be operatedin an initial setting mode in which each of the housing units is in astate of being spaced apart from each other by an initial couplinglength in which the pair of housing units are partially coupled to theconnection socket, and is configured to be operated in a rebar fixingmode in which each of the housing units is coupled to the connectionsocket up to an additional coupling length while a rebar is in a stateof being inserted into the inner passage through the rebar inlet hole,so that the rebar is fixed without a movement of the rebar while each ofthe springs and each of the piece bodies are guided to be moved to theone side direction.
 8. The rebar movement-prevention-type one-touchcoupler of claim 7, wherein the one side of the outer circumferentialsurface of each of the housing units has a coupling guide surface formedin any one shape selected from a hexagonal shape and an octagonal shape,and an edge of each of the coupling guide surfaces has a safety guidesurface formed in a planar shape or a curved shape so that an injurycaused by the edges of the coupling guide surfaces is prevented.